Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weakness in the Columbia plan lies in the method by which they propose to determine each student's individual needs. The idea of a faculty conference with each student to fashion the student's curriculum after considering his ability, cultural background, and intelligence as determined by psychological tests, assumes that the student has formulated some very definite conceptions as to his professional objective. In this age of complicated professional life with its multitude of different fields of endeavor, it is extremely hard for a young college undergraduate after one year of residence to single out definitely one field toward which...
...well this plan will succeed is an open question. The answer must perforce lie in the future. Chicago may have gone at reorganization in too violent a fashion. Her wrath at existing conditions may have led her to an attempt at reform that is too extreme for the undergraduates. The American mind is flexible, but it may not be pliant enough to accept all these changes in one year. There can be little doubt but that Chicago has found a panacea for the ills of modern education. The real question lies in the drastic method of its application...
...drawings is charmingly and stuffily Edwardian, the epoch which is presently amusing England's Bright Young People. Photographic effects which he loses by scratchy, amateurish retouching are regained by cleverly arranged profusions of artificial flora, drapery, gimcracks, for Photographer Beaton is admittedly inspired by the early fashion pictures of Lallie Charles in the Sketch and Tatler. Beauties immortalized by Photographer Beaton are apparently chosen for their news value, ranging from angular Margot Asquith, homely Poetess Edith Sitwell (posed as a corpse, clutching a bunch of lilies) and Novelist Virginia Woolf (who protested in the London Spectator at being Beatonified...
...faith healing became apparent at last week's Canterbury convocation in London. Anglican priests and bishops want faith healing authenticated and formalized under the strict discipline of the Church for two reasons: 1) many have been anointing the sick and laying their hands on them in dismayingly haphazard fashion; 2) they wish to combat Christian Science, which they consider a growing menace to the Church of England. In sundry ways the Anglicans showed how appalled they were that London now has twelve Christian Science churches, whereas five years ago the number was only seven, and ten years ago only three...
...victims of fake hard luck stories and other schemes for obtaining money falsely is by no means limited to residents of New York City and vicinity, according to information gathered here recently. During the past year, especially, residents of middle western cities have been bothered in much the same fashion as those New Yorkers cited in a recent dispatch from Cambridge...